Saturday, November 8, 2008

Ok so just blog what your questions are here and I can add them all together.

46 comments:

jenniferc said...
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jenniferc said...

Who is the narrator?

jenniferc said...

Are Bailey and the mother of the children married od what is the connection between them?

jenniferc said...

How old is Bailey?

jenniferc said...

When was this Story written?

jenniferc said...

What time peroid did the grandmother grow up in, because she always talks about "In my time"?

jenniferc said...

What time period is the story taking place in?

jenniferc said...

When they stop to get food why is there a monkey just chillin' out in front chained to a tree? Is that common?

jenniferc said...

Why do you think the author put so much irony into the grandmother talking about how "People are not like they used to be"?

jenniferc said...

Is Bailey the childrens dad, because they call him pop?

jenniferc said...

Why are the children introduced to us as John Wesley and June Star?
Is that their first and middle name?

jenniferc said...

Clarification: how was the accident caused?

jenniferc said...

What is a valise?

jenniferc said...

Why were the children delighted that they were in an accident?

jenniferc said...

Why did the three men drive up to the accident so slowly?

jenniferc said...

Why were the men not talking?

jenniferc said...

Why do you think the author makes the man who is the Misfit have such a happy disposition?

jenniferc said...

Why do children make the Misfit nervous?

jenniferc said...

What did Bailey say that shocked the children and made the mother cry?

jenniferc said...

Why do you think the narrator make the Misfit speak with bad English?

jenniferc said...

If two scary guys that you know to be convicts ask you to go in the woods with them would you do it? Why do you think they did?

jenniferc said...

When the Misfit talks about the folks that they met and how they borrowed the clothes from them, do you think they killed them too?

jenniferc said...

WHy does the Misfit tell the family so much about him self?

jenniferc said...
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jenniferc said...

Clarification: What did he get sent to jail for the first time?

jenniferc said...

Why didnt the grandmother remember that the shirt that Bobby Lee brought back from the woods was Bailey's?

jenniferc said...

Wht do you think the Misfit ment when he said "but somewheres along the line i done something wrong and got sent to the peniteniary. I was buried alive"?

jenniferc said...

Why didnt the mother realize that her husband was dead?

jenniferc said...

What happened to that grandmother that made her get dizzy?

jenniferc said...

Was the Misfit the grandmother' son?
And if not whay did she say "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"?

jenniferc said...

What do you think is meant by "Its no real pleasure in life."?

PatrickD said...
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PatrickD said...

What is a Valis?

PatrickD said...

What is a Sachet?

PatrickD said...

How old are these kids?

PatrickD said...

On the last page of the story The Misfit says, "She would have been a good women, if she had been somebody there to shoot her ever minute of her life." I don't understand this at all. What does it mean?

hilary l said...

What do you think was the Misfit's crime?

hilary l said...

Why do you think the grandma was so paranoid about everything around her? Do you think something bad happened in her past or so you think she knew something bad was going to happen to the family?

hilary l said...

Why was the grandma always referring to her past?

hilary l said...

Why didn't the family seem to care about the grandma? Especially when she caused the crash and said her organs were hurt? Didn't they care if she died?

hilary l said...

I didnt really feel that the mood of the characters were scared or worried when the guys came to kill them, why do you think this is? Or why weren't they sad and scared to be killed?

hilary l said...

What may be the significance about the grandma's old storied?

hilary l said...

Why was the grandma not scared when talking to the Misfit?

hilary l said...

Do you think that the Misfit was a doppelgangers in the grandma's eyes becuase at the end she says, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"? and why would the Misfit kill her after this

hilary l said...

Why do you think the sky is described as, "not a cloud in the sky nor any sun" by the end of the story?

hilary l said...

Throughout the story the mother is referred to as, "the children's mother," why do you think the author never revealed her name?